Stop the madness and help the world reclaim some peace and quiet! Jerks with cell phones have taken over the world, but there is hope. The "Jerk with the Cell Phone: A Survival Guide for the Rest of Us" includes everything you need to know to deal with cell phone jerks without being a jerk yourself.

They are everywhere. They are loud. Theyre inappropriate. Theyre driving you crazy, and sometimes, nearly driving you off the road.

No doubt about it, the cell phone jerks," says business communications trainer and etiquette expert Barbara Pachter, are driving people crazy, even to the point of inciting cell rage incidents, like a man, who snapped and dumped a soda over a girls head in a movie theater.

Natural Area Rugs has added the South Beach to its Kenya collection of high quality seagrass area rugs and the Olympus Mountain grass rug brings its high altitude appeal. Strong and stain resistant, both sea and mountain grass weave rugs are a perfect blend of natural good looks and durability. Made exclusively for Natural Area Rugs, the 100% grass fiber area rugs are handcrafted and framed by heavy duty pure cotton borders, with extra wide top stitch binding for stability.

"Personally, I like the natural earth tones these grass rugs have," says Mike Dennis of Natural Area Rugs. "Most people comment on the sweet grassy smell the seagrass rugs have in the beginning. The scent wears off, but it gives you a good feeling to know that you purchased an all-natural product."

Baxa Corporation, a Denver-based manufacturer of medical devices for healthcare systems, has won two 2008 Business Marketing Association Gold Key Awards for its integrated direct mail campaign featuring the PadLock® Set-Saver product -- Best Strategy and Gold Key for Best B2B campaign (less than $50,000). One of Colorado's most highly acclaimed marketing competitions, the BMA Gold Key Awards were presented during a ceremony held on May 3rd at the Cable Center at the University of Denver.

The 2008 BMA Gold Key Awards featured 47 award categories and competitions. More then 130 entries were received from Colorado's top B2B businesses and agencies. Entries were reviewed by a panel of six independent judges from across the country. The Baxa PadLock campaign was selected for Best Integrated Campaign in the under $50,000 category, as well as Best Strategy among all of the business-to-business submissions.

Everybody's Phone Company, Inc. (Pink Sheets: EVPH), Texa 00004000 s' fastest growing provider of prepaid telephone services, today announced that a corporate profile, highlighting its current operations, target markets, competitive strengths and growth strategies, is now available at http://www.everybodysphonecompany.com.

Everybody's Phone Company is a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier that leases telephone lines from local incumbent telephone providers and resells the service to connect residents to enable incoming and outbound calls, 911 access and receipt of collect calls, among other features like Call Waiting, Call Forwarding and Caller ID for a nominal fee. The Company's primary target market is credit-disadvantaged consumers and those who have been routinely denied connection to the regional telephone companies for various reasons. Everybody's Phone Company offers its service on a prepaid basis, therefore no deposit requirements, credit checks, ID, or social security questions are ever needed. To sign up, consumers simply have to provide a name and address.

Hot Banana (www.hotbanana.com), the Web content management solution (CMS) from J.L. Halsey, today announced that it has added five new channel partners to its reseller program. In signing with Hot Banana, all cited the need for a leading-edge Web content management system that is feature-rich, flexible and marketing-friendly. The company made the announcement at ad:tech Chicago, here through August 1.

Joining Hot Banana’s partner roster are ODA (www.odasf.com), a creative services agency based in San Francisco; CubicICE (www.cubicice.com), an intelligent marketing services company based in South Africa; ClearGauge (www.cleargauge.com),

an online marketing services and analytics consultancy based in Chicago; Portent Interactive (www.portentinteractive.com), an internet marketing company in Seattle; and Nectar, Incorporated (www.nectarinc.com), a multimedia production agency based in New York City.

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“Our new partners are all experiencing healthy growth and with that, the need for a top-notch system to satisfy the demands of their expanding customer bases,” said Krista LaRiviere, General Manager, Hot Banana. “Hot Banana gives them the features and the flexibility they want -- and that their customers are demanding.”



ODA selected Hot Banana after a careful review of its own in-house system and other available solutions on the market.

"We needed our Web content management solution to be flexible, feature-rich and SEO-friendly," said Chris Black, Director of Technology, ODA. "Hot Banana gives our designers and developers the ability to satisfy all of our clients, many of whom have extensive online marketing needs. Hot Banana enables our developers to extend past the core technology by adding custom modules that open the door to new and exciting online initiatives within the Web CMS arena."

Small business owners broadly and sharply feel the impact of the recession. While the National Federation of Independent Business Index of Small Business Optimism rose a marginal 0.3 points to 87.8 (1986=100), it was the fourth lowest reading in the 35-year history of the survey. Inflationary pressures eased significantly, with the net percent of owners reporting higher average selling prices plunging to zero percent, a 15-point decline from October and one of the lowest readings ever.

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Employees in Colorado who lose their jobs may want to consider an individual health insurance policy as an alternative to continuing their former employer's group policy through COBRA. "While the decision to participate in COBRA depends on multiple factors -- such as pre-existing conditions and the length of time someone will be out of work -- the cost of COBRA coverage is often surprising," according to Healthquotes.com founder Michael Horvat, who has over 28 years of experience as a Colorado health insurance broker. "Individual policies can be prohibitively expensive in some states; however, Colorado has very reasonable rates, making individual policies an attractive alternative to COBRA."

Global Residence Club, a Seattle headquartered private residence club that markets and sells fee simple fractional ownership interests in luxury homes, ranches and estates throughout the world announces its newest property, Villa Toscana, located in the 5 Star resort enclave of Punta Diamante in Acapulco, Mexico. Undivided, title insured, deeded tenant in common interests are now selling for $420,000 USD. Each share guarantees the owner 45 days of prime usage, alternating annually into perpetuity.

In today’s uncertain markets, investors are growing increasingly frustrated with their poor or non-existent stock market profits. A recent Barron’s article highlights how the largest demographic of investors, our aging baby-boomers, are turning to opti 5a8 ons to increase their income and returns on their underperforming portfolios. Investors are turning to options selling in order to bring in monthly premiums from the sale of these options against the stocks held in their IRA’s and other long-term portfolios. Options expert and former professional floor trader Ron Ianieri reveals how the professionals use options to make money, with very little risk, and to boost retirement returns by multiples of up to 10 times. “When used correctly, options are actually less risky than stocks and can provide much greater percentage returns with less capital outlay. Investors can sell options against their existing stocks for monthly premium collection in sideways markets,” Ianieri states.

The Southern Ideal Home Show will be held at the Charlotte Merchandise Mart September 15, 16, and 17, 2006. Show hours are from noon to 9 p.m., Friday, September 15; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday, September 16; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, September 17. Admission is $7.00; children under 15 are free. Seniors’ day is scheduled for Friday when seniors (55+) receive a special admission price of $6.00. During the show, please visit Todd Sterchi and his staff at booth #1420 to view his collection of fabulous photos of homes lit with NiteLites. Attendees can ask their questions about outdoor lighting fixtures and discuss the specific benefits of the NiteLites architectural and landscape lighting systems.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) September 22, 2006 – Mary Furlong & Associates (MFA) announced today that it is adding a full range of public relations services. The move broadens the firm’s portfolio of client offerings, which includes marketing, research and business development services.

In addition to more traditional public relations, such as working with mainstream print and broadcast reporters to secure media coverage for clients, MFA specializes in “PR 2.0” – reaching consumers through weblogs, e-newsletters, podcasts, Web promotions, mobile devices and other emerging digital channels.

Capella University is once again proud to sponsor the Twin Cities Marathon, which takes place on Oct. 1, 2006. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the marathon, often referred to as “the most beautiful urban marathon in America.” The 26.2 mile course begins near the Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis, and finishes at the State Capitol in St. Paul. The course is flat to rolling, mostly asphalt, and winds through parkways, lakes, rivers and tree-lined boulevards. More than 250,000 spectators are expected to watch the event.

Gregg Thompson wants to make one thing clear: new leaders need to step up to a new role in order to win the war for talent…a war that can be fought and won within the organization. Thompson, President of Bluepoint Leadership, maintains that coaching is no longer the sole domain of external professional coaches. "Leaders at all organization levels are being asked to be more coach-like with their team members, colleagues, and even their customers. Unfortunately, many of us who lead organizations find ourselves ill-equipped to provide that coaching," said Thompson. "It's not that we lack the requisite interpersonal and leadership competencies, but that coaching requires us to engage in uniquely challenging relationships and conversations."

The Orion Group Ltd is offering a breakthrough product for dealing with one the biggest health issues around: loss of libido. In addition to Scentuelle, their libido enhancing patch, The Orion Group has just launched a newsletter for their site visitors. The newsletter is designed to further educate the many North Americans that are seeing doctors and taking countless prescription pills to solve libido issues, that they have the power through their sense of smell to take control of their romantic lives.

Waltham, MA, (PRWEB) January 15, 2009 - Dave's Garden the largest online community of gardeners, has partnered with Nashville-based GardenBookstore.net to expand its access to garden books and reviews.

Since 2002, Dave's Garden has provided gardeners with a comprehensive database of gardening books through its feature, The Garden Bookworm, going far beyond the usual lists of popular titles. The Garden Bookworm enables gardeners to search and browse through dozens of garden-related categories, covering everything from African Violet care to landscaping and design, along with regional advice, sustainable agriculture practices and xeriscaping tips.

As Allentown firefighters know from fighting last Fridays fire, candle fires have been on the rise for years and are at the highest during the holiday season. Candle Smart, Inc. a company in Allentown, Pennsylvania has created a smart candleholder to reduce this danger.

After nearly having a tragic fire in her own home, inventor Deb Platts, wanted to prevent this from happening to other people. Platts and her partner Ed Kelly developed the Candle Minder, a candleholder that sounds an alarm reminding candle users to extinguish the flame.

Longtime nature enthusiasts Richard and Arlene Hunsinger have put together a great online resource for fellow nature admirers and bird watchers. The Hunsingers' site, www.MyBirdTown.com, is one of the internet's premiere webstores for birdhouses and feeders.

"We've always been interested in bird and we enjoy nature," said Richard Hunsinger, "so creating a website like this one was a no-brainer. We want to share our love of nature with others."

We have a wealth of knowledge on sheltering and nesting

This will also be a good chance for us to exchange ideas with other birdwatchers, too.

For nearly a year, the website has catered to both novice and advanced birdwatchers, providing high quality houses and feeders at reasonable prices; on top of that, the site also has the friendliest customer service this side of Pleasantville.

The effectiveness and reliability of the C-track vehicle tracking and fleet management system had been emphasised with the drastic reduction of vehicle abuse and the recovery of 12 stolen vehicles of the eThekwini Municipality recently.

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00004000 In the past the eThekwini Municipality were concerned that vehicles in their R1.2 billion fleet, were being damaged and their lifespan shortened by reckless driving and abuse. Following a R 35 Million investment in The C-track satellite-monitored system these vehicles can now be tracked in the event of a theft or hijacking and for the monitoring of unauthorised use of the vehicles.

JobFlash, the leading voice in hourly recruiting, today announced the addition of PowerAd™ to its suite of award-winning recruiting solutions.

PowerAd™ automates the entire hiring process once a newspaper ad is placed by offering applicants a phone and web-based interface to apply for jobs. Since the phone and web interface is in English and Spanish and available 24/7/365, recruiters can attract a larger pool of qualified and employed applicants, those who would not typically apply in person.

“JobFlash has stretched our advertising by allowing us to reach the deepest pool of candidates, including Spanish-language applicants and those without computers,” says Tara Gutierrez, employment manager of the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino-Las Vegas. “In addition, the resume bank allows us to fill future jobs, which in turn defrays advertising costs for those positions.”

Curtis, Inc., manufacturer of the World's Fastest 3.5" form factor Solid State Disks(SSDs), today announced that its HyperXCLR Solid State Disk, is available in 12GB capacity with disk backup and 18GB capacity volatile.

The HyperXCLR is a 3.5 inch Fibre Channel Solid State Disk and is form factor compatible with standard mechanical 3.5 inch Fibre Channel disk drives. The form factor and fibre interface compatibility allows the HyperXCLR to be used as a direct replacement (plug and play) for slower mechanical disks providing immediate performance improvements to user applications. The HyperXCLR is based on DRAM technology providing unlimited write cycles and write performance characteristics unachievable with FLASH based SSD technology. The HyperXCLR provides a highly reliable integrated data retention system using a rugged mechanical disk and dual redundant battery system. Since the HyperXCLR is a form factor (3.5" hard disk) compatible device, it is the ideal choice for creating scalable and reliable Solid State Storage in standard off the shelf servers and storage systems.